Upper Elementary

Blanche H. Daughtrey Elementary School

Our garden is structured to provide space for individual raised-bed gardens for:
-our classroom teachers and their students,
-students' and families who live in Pride Park that are not able to have gardens where they live, and,
-to engage our students in their community, raised beds specifically tended by science students to grow vegetables for elderly residents of low-income.

Buttonball Lane Elementary

The Buttonball Courtyard began its transformation into an outdoor classroom in 2012. A courtyard committee was formed that included the school principal, classroom teacher representatives, parents, school custodian and members of a local gardening group.
We sought space within the school grounds that weren’t already over-scheduled that could be used for hands-on student gardening, outdoor activities and general recreation. The school day has become increasingly structured and there is a real need for interaction with the outdoors as a means of learning and relaxing.

Dingle Elementary

Started 15 years ago, the Dingle garden is an oasis of insects, seedlings, weeds, flowers, vegetables, and children. Yet the reality of food scarcity and poverty has made the garden more than a place of beauty: in the last two years it has evolved into a place of nutrition and agricultural studies for children. Now the garden is a place where children meet weekly to plant seedlings, observe plant growth, and finally, harvest the food they've grown to deliver and serve in the cafeteria. Over time we hope that students will bring all this knowledge of healthy eating back home.

Grandview Public School

We believe there is a positive impact of authentic outdoor garden on student engagement and social skill development.
A garden at Grandview Public School would help us with many aspects of our curriculum including Healthy Living, Science, Social Studies, Math, Language and Art. Aswell, it would encourage social and emotional development.
This garden would not only provide many learning opportunities to cover the Ontario curriculum but would allow for:
• Differentiating instruction within our learning environments
• Make authentic learning situations

Laupahoehoe Community Public Charter Scho

Laupahoehoe has been home for 130 years to a historic school system that has served the agricultural communities of North Hilo and Hamakua districts of windward Hawaii Island. Laupahoehoe Community Public Charter School (LCPCS) has developed a robust Farm to School program with the goal to connect students to healthy locally sourced foods through the cafeteria food programs, classrooms, and agriculture projects. This year we will expand our farm to school program garden and implement our “environmental food awareness project”.

Sequoia Academics and Arts Charter School

Considering that we currently have a garden but it has not been successful, we realized that we did not have a mission initially. Our mission is to, 1) develop children’s understanding of vegetable production, 2) raise children’s interest in a more varied diet, 3) help children to learn to produce vegetables, 4) produce foods appreciated by our families and students, 5) provide opportunities for our students to consume the vegetables they produce, 6) encourage children to acquire attitudes of cooperation, responsibility, self-esteem, motivation and the value of work.

The New School of Lancaster

New School of Lancaster students are dirt-and-life-loving, curious young people who are eager to plant and savor vegetables and fruits from our school grounds. We are building food-growing and soil-growing spaces that can be used by all the students in our PreK-8 school.

Frank Paul Elementary School

The goal of the garden is to involve children in the study of the butterfly life cycle, the creation of a butterfly garden, and a conceptual understanding the life cycle of butterflies.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell Elementary School

The school garden provides a green space; increases access to healthy, fresh, local food in a low-income neighborhood; provides a healthy activity for children to engage around during recess and lunch break; and has been the focal point for food, garden, and environmental-focused education for the past several years, mainly through a partnership with SPEC in which an experienced garden educator delivers lessons to the classrooms. This grant would allow the continuity of the school garden program.

Perkins Academy

Perkins garden has been successful over the past four years, having inherited tools from a previous garden and as the recipient of generosity and support of the school community. However our main growing area, an In Ground garden space of about 2,000 square feet, has never been amended. We have been gardening in this area through very wet springs and very hot dry August weather for 3 of the past four years. The soil supported turf grass and is not very loose or conducive to growing strong, productive plants.

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